{"id":792136,"date":"2019-01-17T12:05:15","date_gmt":"2019-01-17T19:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=780626"},"modified":"2019-01-17T12:05:15","modified_gmt":"2019-01-17T19:05:15","slug":"james-blake-recruits-travis-scott-metro-boomin-for-mile-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/james-blake-recruits-travis-scott-metro-boomin-for-mile-high\/","title":{"rendered":"James Blake Recruits Travis Scott, Metro Boomin for \u2018Mile High\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/james-blake-metro-boomin-travis-scott.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/james-blake\/\" id=\"auto-tag_james-blake\" data-tag=\"james-blake\">James Blake<\/a>, dance producer turned melancholic experimental songwriter, is prepping for a new album to be released on Friday, January 18th.\u00a0<em>Assume Form<\/em>, Blake\u2019s first full-length since 2016\u2019s\u00a0<em>The Colour In Anything<\/em>, promises to be a higher profile affair than his previous records, and finds the English producer and singer recruiting collaborators from the hip-hop world to add new textures to his work.<\/p>\n<p>On the album\u2019s latest single, \u201cMile High,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/travis-scott\/\" id=\"auto-tag_travis-scott\" data-tag=\"travis-scott\">Travis Scott<\/a> repays the favor Blake paid him on\u00a0<em>Astroworld<\/em>\u2018s \u201cStop Trying To Be God,\u201d showing up for a guest appearance. Perennial rap-producer-of-the-year candidate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/metro-boomin\/\" id=\"auto-tag_metro-boomin\" data-tag=\"metro-boomin\">Metro Boomin<\/a> (and frequent Scott beatsmith) also shows up.<\/p>\n<p>The track carries more of Blake\u2019s DNA than his collaborators\u2019. When Travis and Metro link up, the results are usually bombastic. \u201cMile High,\u201d in contrast, is an exercise in restraint. It features the tight trap drummers Metro is known for, but never explodes into anything other than a woozy, unbalanced tone poem.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMile High\u201d was premiered on Apple Music\u2019s Beats 1, and is currently available on all streaming services.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/james-blake-travis-scott-metro-boomin-mile-high-780626\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Blake, dance producer turned melancholic experimental songwriter, is prepping for a new album to be released on Friday, January 18th.\u00a0Assume Form, Blake\u2019s first full-length since 2016\u2019s\u00a0The Colour In Anything, promises to be a higher profile affair than his previous records, and finds the English producer and singer recruiting collaborators from the hip-hop world to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-792136","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 15:08:04","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=792136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}